As we celebrate Pi Day -- or Pi Week as we'd rather call it -- let's look back on some of the exciting projects we have done featuring the Raspberry Pi micro-computer. There are so many things you can do with it, and we'll just scratch the surface.

We continue setting up our Pi web server with PHP and a strong Linux firewall (CSF/LFD). We also get things going on deploying MariaDB, but haven't quite got there yet. On GIMP Tips, we look at creating gradients and how to make the edges super-smooth.

The Category5.TV Newsroom

The world's first commercial, floating, offshore wind farm, called Hywind, started sending electricity to the grid last October. Since then, the six-turbine, 30 megawatt installation has been working really well. In fact, Hywind has had a 65-percent capacity factor over the last three months according to Statoil (the Norwegian mega-corporation that built the wind farm off the coast of Scotland).

A new technique is abusing poorly-secured servers and fueling record-breaking denial-of-service attacks—along with notes demanding the targets pay hefty ransoms if they want the debilitating flood of junk traffic to stop.

Levi Strauss is introducing a digitizing technique that uses lasers to ethically create designs on its jeans in place of manual labor.

The Law Commission in the UK is to conduct a study into British driving laws with the aim of making sure humans can still be blamed for road accidents caused by driverless cars—as well as criminalising hackers who target autonomous vehicles.

A UK startup is changing the way we see prostheses. Open Bionics is working hard to create affordable 3D printed bionic hands that actually work—but are about 30 times cheaper than other prostheses on the market.

A California electronics recycler is fighting to stay out of jail after he admitted to copying thousands of Windows reinstallation discs, to use with refurbished PCs.

Artificial Intelligence researchers at Google have developed algorithms that can assess the risk of heart attacks by analyzing retinal scans.

A clock designed to run for ten millennia without human intervention is now under construction.

An IT worker who accidentally threw out a hard drive containing a small cache of bitcoin, has so far lost over $100m because of the blunder.

Investigations have been launched after a helicopter reportedly crashed while swerving to avoid a consumer drone.

A Japanese company is planning to build the world's tallest wooden skyscraper in 2041 to mark its 350th anniversary.

Researchers said Thursday that passports, drivers licenses, and other sensitive documentation for thousands of FedEx customers were left online—possibly for years—in a blunder that left the information available to identity thieves and other malicious actors.

Are you still holding on to Windows 7? Well, good news—Microsoft has back-ported its “Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection” security toolkit from Windows 10, to Windows 7 and 8.1.

A South Korean appeals court has freed Samsung Group heir Lee Jae-yong and reduced his five-year jail term—dismissing a number of charges against him in the corruption scandal.

That didn't take long: someone has hacked Amazon Key, the lock that allows delivery drivers to open your front door and leave your packages inside.

National Geographic has reported that laser-toting archaeologists have discovered an entire Mayan city in the Central American jungle that has been lost for hundreds of years.

It was just October when the co-founder of UNICEF Ventures, Chris Fabian, said that the company would not shy away from experimenting with cryptocurrency and the surrounding tech—and now UNICEF is asking gamers to install mining software to raise money to help Syrian children.

New Every Day

Join Jenn Wagar and Carrie Webb as they sit down for a heart-to-heart discussion each week, addressing many of the issues Christians face in their day to day lives, and building your faith and focus through relevant conversation.

This week, we continue our discussion of Acts 12. As we encounter some of the early martyrs of the Christian Church, we'll try to get our heads around the difficult question of why God would answer one prayer but not another.

Being an effective witness for Christ starts with one truth: the Bible is the infallible Word of Almighty God. Join Carrie Webb, along with her father and guest, Rob Webb, as we explore the divine nature of the Word of God.

The Pixel Shadow

A mysterious teleportation gate hidden deep beneath BaldNerd's dome whisks BaldNerd and MangleFox70 away to the strange, unknown land of the Xanadu, where the locals are able to eat bananas and corn, bounce around in a massive soccer field and take a minecart ride through the depths of the underworld.

On the first episode of #thepixelshadow we'll get things started with the basics of Minetest with a simple goal: to build a house using nothing but resources which we've chopped down, dug up or crafted in survival mode!
Here are the main topics of this episode:
- Mining wood and stone.
- Crafting wood sticks.
- How to make wooden planks.
- Crafting a furnace.
- Smelting glass from sand.
- Granting fast and fly privileges.
- Making a pickaxe.
- Crafting fancy doors using VanessaE's Home Decor mod.
- Crafting a storage chest.
- Crafting ladders.
- Crafting a survival house.
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